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Community Development Projects

Community development projects support organized rural communities and grassroots organizations as they organize and empower people to seek long-term, sustainable change.

The projects SHARE supports emphasize formal and informal education, gender equality, alternative economic initiatives, and community organizing and advocacy in search of viable models of sustainable development for El Salvador’s rural sector and beyond.  Projects invest in people and the ability to create structural change for a better life.

To implement most of our community development projects, SHARE works closely with the grassroots organization CRIPDES, an association of communities working for the organization and development of rural El Salvador.  Our partnership with CRIPDES regions allows us to reach hundreds of communities and thousands of families, empowered to identify problems and propose solutions.

SHARE currently works with three CRIPDES Regions- CCR, UCRES, and San Vicente- to support nine Community Development Projects.  Please scroll down to read about our other community development projects outside of the CRIPDES Regions.

Current Community Development Projects and Counterparts

 

Women’s Empowerment through Microfinance and Food Security


 

Education for Youth Organization

CRIPDES San Vicente

 

Women and the Environment

 

Seed Funds and Mental Health for Women Leaders

CRIPDES San Vicente

 

Youth Leaders for Nonviolence

 

Holistic Development for Youth Leaders

 

Educating Professionals for Community Development

 

Drumming and Health Education for Young Women with the IMU

Leticia

 

Women’s Cattle Cooperative: The Mujeres Ganaderas

Mujeres Ganaderas

 

Center for Child Development “Guanaquitos”